Letter from Fr. Luke Sheehan

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NOTEL NEWLY REFITTED. SPECIAL ATTENTION TO COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS. BARBER SHOP AND BATHS IN CONNECTION. EVERYTHING FIRST-CLASS. Headquarters with heart wires Headquarters from Luke HOTEL BEND HUGH O'KANE, MANAGER. BEND, OREGON. 31-5-19. 11 BEND is situated in the very heart of the Deschutes Valley, on the banks of the Deschutes River where the waste pine timber belt meets the irrigated lands. No other town in all Central Oregon is so well located for economic development, no other can approach it in the heavity and healthfulness of its surroundings, and none will be half so much benefited by the coming of the railroads. A great irrigation segregation has its headquarters at Bend. At least twenty billion feet of timber is tributary to the town, whose milling in itself assures a great future. The Deschutes river in the immediate vicinity offers some 25,000 horsepower for the operation of the mills and plants of the future. The Oregon Trunk Railroad is building to Bend. Practically all the grading from the Columbia River is completed, and cars will be running early in 1911. Bend will be the terminus of this road for a considerable period. The Harrison Deschutes Road already is building into the Bend country. The east-and-west line of the Hill road branches off from the Columbia-Klamath line at Bend. Bend, then, is situated at what will be the most important junction point in Oregon. Immediately adjacent to Bend are some three hundred thousand acres of irrigated land under the Carey Act segregation of the Central Oregon Irrigation Company. This land is FREE. Perpetual water rights cost $40 an acre. Forty acres means independence, eighty acres brings wealth. Every product adopted to the temperate area thrives in the rich volcanic soil. The land is easily worked and watered. It offers the greatest irrigationist's opportunity to be found in the Northwest. Come and investigate for yourself before all the big cheap-land channels are gone. From Bend settlers are located on garacte homesteads on the west area of sage brush lands to the southeast. Here is found the biggest and the last big chance for the lard hungry to get free Government land that is worth the having. The railroads are coming. Hurry and get in on the ground floor. Central Oregon is the greatest homeseekers' and investors' proposition in all the West today. Bend is the givor point of Central Oregon. It is destined to make a magnificent city. Those who come to Bend now and to the country around Bend, will win wonderful rewards for their foreign. And when you come to Bend remember that the Hotel Bend IS THE PLACE TO STOP dont think he will propose to the council Rydeas L. Showes I was ended delighted to get your letter shot though I was. Shops you had a very pleasant trip Leonard will probably be delighted to get to Hooverbury and it will be very useful to us thow a base of operation over in the East. I dont see that the Archbishop can make any more defense offer than he has done. He quit arrive…